Miti Miti

Discipline

Multidisciplinary

Issue

Economic Development

Student Opportunity

Semester/Year

Summer 2016

Program

Impact Awards

Team Miti Miti believed that education was the key to transforming Colombia’s society, and sought to address educational inequity through a social business model.

Because access to school supplies can be a huge barrier for staying in school, the team created a buy one, give one company that designs, manufactures, and sells high quality notebooks. For every notebook sold, one is donated to a student in need in Colombia.

“As a social business, all of the proceeds go directly to support our mission. In Miti Miti, we believe in the power of sharing: by creating a competitive, high quality solution to a market-driven problem, we can make a sustainable impact on access to education.”

All proceeds go towards supporting their mission of sustainable impact on access to education. They are currently developing a tutoring program and a design-thinking workshop to empower students to achieve beyond their socioeconomic boundaries.